True, but for such basic things, you could just use something lightweight like Flask and not have to deal with all of Django's baggage. It all depends on the a

True, but for such basic things, you could just use something lightweight like Flask and not have to deal with all of Django's baggage. It all depends on the app, though. In my case, even "boring" stuff often needed to make HTTP requests to the outside world, so Django would never have scaled for me. (In hindsight, I should have just written the whole thing in Node, but it wasn't as mature back then and I didn't want to take the risk.)